The Company That Makes the Kardashians’ Favorite Waist Trainer Is Being Sued for $5 Million

It turns out squeezing your stomach in a latex band doesn’t make it smaller, or at least that’s what Sara Hawes and other customers are saying in their lawsuit against the Waist Gang Society’s Reshaping Waistshaper.

TMZ reports a group of women have sued the Kardashian-approved waist trainers for not giving them the signature curves promised by the company. Sara filed a class action suit for $5 million against the Florida-based company.

Waist trainers are bands meant to mimic corsets and be worn tightly around the stomach. After wearing them for a while, the trainers are supposed to mold your body into a more hourglass shape. While celebs like the Kardashian sisters swear by them, experts say they don’t really work — any effects you think you might see from wearing a waist trainer will go away if you don't wear it.

The lawsuit claims the product’s mission is misleading: it won’t make your tummy flatter and your waist thinner, it just moves the existing fat around to other places.

"Corsets do not cause you to permanently lose fat in the midsection: they cause a re-distribution of the fat and organs in the trunk," the lawsuit reads, according to TMZ.

The Kardashian sisters are not being sued, just the company that makes the shapers.

The most important thing, though, is that a bunch of doctors say waist training isn’t very healthy. Waist training can crush your liver and kidneys, and it can even fracture your ribs. What is healthy, though, is body acceptance. It’s way more fun to love your body and treat it well than harm it while trying to change.